Jeremiah 9:3

New Century Version

“They use their tongues like a bow, shooting lies from their mouths like arrows. Lies, not truth, have grown strong in the land. They go from one evil thing to another. They do not know who I am,” says the Lord.

Cross References

Genesis 39:16

She kept his coat until her husband came home,

Proverbs 12:5

The plans that good people make are fair, but the advice of the wicked will trick you.

Isaiah 1:3

An ox knows its master, and a donkey knows where its owner feeds it, but the people of Israel do not know me; my people do not understand.”

Isaiah 3:5

People will be against each other; everyone will be against his neighbor. Young people will not respect older people, and common people will not respect important people.”

Isaiah 6:5

I said, “Oh, no! I will be destroyed. I am not pure, and I live among people who are not pure, but I have seen the King, the Lord All-Powerful.”

Isaiah 9:18

Evil is like a small fire. First, it burns weeds and thorns. Next, it burns the larger bushes in the forest, and they all go up in a column of smoke.

Jeremiah 12:6

Even your own brothers and members of your own family are making plans against you. They are crying out against you. Don’t trust them, even when they say nice things to you!

Jeremiah 22:16

He helped those who were poor and needy, so everything went well for him. That is what it means to know God,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 31:34

People will no longer have to teach their neighbors and relatives to know the Lord, because all people will know me, from the least to the most important,” says the Lord. “I will forgive them for the wicked things they did, and I will not remember their sins anymore.”

Jeremiah 4:22

The Lord says, “My people are foolish. They do not know me. They are stupid children; they don’t understand. They are skillful at doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

Jeremiah 5:4

But I thought, “These are only the poor, foolish people. They have not learned the way of the Lord and what their God wants them to do.

Jeremiah 5:5

So I will go to the leaders of Judah and talk to them. Surely they understand the way of the Lord and know what God wants them to do.” But even the leaders had all joined together to break away from the Lord; they had broken their ties with him.

Jeremiah 6:28

All my people have turned against me and are stubborn. They go around telling lies about others. They are like bronze and iron that became covered with rust. They all act dishonestly.

Jeremiah 7:26

But your ancestors did not listen or pay attention to me. They were very stubborn and did more evil than their ancestors.’

Jeremiah 9:5

Everyone lies to his friend, and no one speaks the truth. The people of Judah have taught their tongues to lie. They have become tired from sinning.

Jeremiah 9:8

Their tongues are like sharp arrows. Their mouths speak lies. Everyone speaks nicely to his neighbor, but he is secretly planning to attack him.

Ezekiel 8:13

He also said to me, “You will see even more hateful things that they are doing.”

Daniel 11:27

Those two kings will want to hurt each other. They will sit at the same table and lie to each other, but it will not do either one any good, because God has set a time for their end to come.

Leviticus 19:11

“ ‘You must not steal. You must not cheat people, and you must not lie to each other.

Mark 8:38

The people who live now are living in a sinful and evil time. If people are ashamed of me and my teaching, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes with his Father’s glory and with the holy angels.”

John 17:3

And this is eternal life: that people know you, the only true God, and that they know Jesus Christ, the One you sent.

Acts 24:9

The others agreed and said that all of this was true.

Romans 1:16

I am not ashamed of the Good News, because it is the power God uses to save everyone who believes—to save the Jews first, and then to save non-Jews.

Romans 1:28

People did not think it was important to have a true knowledge of God. So God left them and allowed them to have their own worthless thinking and to do things they should not do.

Romans 3:13

“Their throats are like open graves; they use their tongues for telling lies.” “Their words are like snake poison.”

1 Corinthians 15:34

Come back to your right way of thinking and stop sinning. Some of you do not know God—I say this to shame you.

Philippians 1:28

and that you are not afraid of those who are against you. All of this is proof that your enemies will be destroyed but that you will be saved by God.

2 Timothy 3:13

But people who are evil and cheat others will go from bad to worse. They will fool others, but they will also be fooling themselves.

Jude 1:3

Dear friends, I wanted very much to write you about the salvation we all share. But I felt the need to write you about something else: I want to encourage you to fight hard for the faith that was given the holy people of God once and for all time.

Revelation 12:11

And our brothers and sisters defeated him by the blood of the Lamb’s death and by the message they preached. They did not love their lives so much that they were afraid of death.

Judges 14:17

Samson’s wife cried for the rest of the seven days of the feast. So he finally gave her the answer on the seventh day, because she kept bothering him. Then she told her people the answer to the riddle.

Judges 2:10

After those people had died, their children grew up and did not know the Lord or what he had done for Israel.

1 Samuel 2:12

Now Eli’s sons were evil men; they did not care about the Lord.